The view from my office

When you're in a band and you've practiced for hours and hours and your fingers bleed from picking the guitar strings and you have that moment of connection on stage, when it's just you and the audience, and the audience leaves the theater ready to take on the world, inspired by your art, and so in their moment of bliss they take a sharpie and scrawl your band's name on a dumpster outside my window ...

...then, and only then, will you know you've arrived.